That’s 6 billion years sooner than the predicted impact with another neighbor, spiral galaxy Andromeda.

A study published in the journal Royal Astronomical Society suggests the impact could “wake up” the Milky Way’s dormant black hole. Which, in turn, would start devouring all the gas in sight, growing in size up to 10 times.

As it feeds, the black hole would emit high-energy radiation.

The good news is, these “cosmic fireworks” are unlikely to affect life on Earth.

The bad new is, that doesn’t matter, because there’s a chance the initial collision could send our Solar System hurtling into space.

“There is a small chance that we might not escape unscathed from this collision between the two galaxies, which could knock us out of the Milky Way and into space,” lead researcher Marius Cautun, a postdoctoral fellow in Durham’s Institute for Computational Cosmology, said in a statement.

Welcome to 2019, folks.

Two irregular dwarf galaxies less than 200,000 light-years from the Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds can be seen in the night sky with the naked eye.

Until the discovery of the Sagittarius Dwarf Elliptical Galaxy in 1994, these were the closest known galaxies to our own. The Canis Major Dwarf Galaxy, spotted in 2003, is considered the actual nearest neighbor.

Astronomers long believed the LMC would either orbit the Milky Way for billions of years, or manage to escape from our Solar System’s gravitational pull.

Recent measurements, however, indicate that the Large Magellanic Cloud has nearly twice as much dark matter than previously thought. LMC, it turns out, is rapidly losing energy and is doomed to collide with our galaxy.